Giovanni picked up the flowers he had bought and threw them down to her.

VOA: special.2009.05.23

policy toward the island. "The view from Havana is that U.S.classified information is a commodity to be bought,sold and traded to anyone that can come up with the right offer,"

VOA: standard.2009.06.06

But India's diamond center is now desolate. Merchants in the once busy trading city say they have transacted virtually no business since last Christmas as orders dry up from Western buyers, who bought nearly 90 percent of their stones.

VOA: standard.2009.04.03

"During the Diwali season, you have the days running up towards Diwali and the five days after Diwali,where coins, investment bars will be bought because it's very auspicious to be bought, so you do find people to come in to but that memento as well,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.17

But the City of Indianapolis came to the rescue. It bought the theater building in the 1980s and leased the Roof Ballroom to a developer, who not only fixed it up but installed what it called a scene machine to add more moody sky effects like synthetic snowfall.

VOA: standard.2010.02.25